As mastiff dogs in modern phrase are
- DMI number:
- 12153
- First Line:
- As mastiff dogs in modern phrase are
- Last Line:
- Whether this be not a salamander
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Answer/reply, Satire, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Corruption, Illness, injury[The clap], Politics, Science[Natural history - Salamander], and Social order
- Author:
- Jonathan Swift
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Swift Poems Project, 082-
- First Line:
- As mastiff dogs in modern phrase are
- Last Line:
- Is not this same a Salamander
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- For what is understood by fame
- Last Line:
- Besides the getting of a name
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Miscellanies in prose and verse. The fourth edition [T39456] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.103[i.e.203]-205
- Poem Title:
- The Description of a Salamander. Out of Pliny's Nat. Hist. L. 10. C. 67. & L. 29. C. 4. Anno 1705.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The muse's vagaries or the merry mortal's companion [Part II] [ESTC T170724]
- Page No(s):
- pp.99-101
- Poem Title:
- Dean Swift's Character of the Late L--d C--tts; represented in the Description of a Salamander.
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Swift [Contents page attribution]
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
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